“Before you can begin to lay down the law you must know what that law…” — E. Nesbit

“Before you can begin to lay down the law you must know what that law is, and your heart, soul, and spirit must not only know it, but approve it.”

Insisting that moral authority requires inward conviction and consistency · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter VIII: The Moral Code

E. Nesbit

About E. Nesbit

15 August 1858–4 May 1924

Edith Nesbit, who published most often as E. Nesbit, was born on 15 August 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now within south London. She died on 4 May 1924 at New Romney, Kent. In the years between those dates she became one of the most inventive writers for children in English…

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